
You have a lot of choices when it comes to online backup services, and CrashPlan ($59.99 per year) is one of the most capable, affordable, and innovative (PCMag)Īfter carefully comparing 20 services and testing six, we believe that CrashPlan … continues to be the best online backup service for most people, as it offers a great combination of useful features at an attractive (though not rock-bottom) price. This feature, coupled with unlimited cloud storage, provides the most inclusive disaster-protection solution on the market right now. There’s a single feature that puts CrashPlan ahead: unlimited deleted-file protection. Here are excerpts from reviews of CrashPlan, which works with Windows, Mac, and Linux: (#1, The Wirecutter #1, Tom’s Guide Editor’s Choice, PCMag) Here, we compare the popular and highly-rated online backup services Crashplan, Backblaze, and IDrive: 1. Credit: Flickr / Blondinrikard Fröberg.īy the way, over at Corporette we’ve talked about Evernote and other note-keeping apps, the Morphine plugin for Chrome for limiting distractions, and apps for working women, and here at CorporetteMoms we’ve talked about how to organize family photos and make photo projects. Pictured: The normal time everyone thinks about backing up their computer: when they see the blue screen of death. Today we’re rounding up the 3 best online services for backing up files. Backing up data is usually pretty tedious and time-consuming - and it’s so easy to forget to do - but online backup services make the process much easier and hands-off.


If it hasn’t happened to you personally, it’s definitely happened to a friend or family member: Your computer crashes and you lose everything … because you haven’t backed up your files. How do you back up those hard drives? We looked into the best online backup services that keep your stuff safe - and don’t require a ton of effort or money on your part. Some of it you can save casually in the cloud, sure - but some of it, for sheer size alone, kind of has to live on a hard drive. These days, everyone has precious things on our computers: those family photos, that old voicemail from Nana you saved on your computer, the half-finished draft of your novel.
